Publication Date:
2004-10-02
Description:
A stable phase of toroidal, or ringlike, supramolecular assemblies was formed by combining dilute solution characteristics critical for both bundling of like-charged biopolymers and block copolymer micelle formation. The key to toroid versus classic cylinder micelle formation is the interaction of the negatively charged hydrophilic block of an amphiphilic triblock copolymer with a positively charged divalent organic counterion. This produces a self-attraction of cylindrical micelles that leads to toroid formation, a mechanism akin to the toroidal bundling of semiflexible charged biopolymers such as DNA. The toroids can be kinetically trapped or chemically cross-linked. Insight into the mechanism of toroid formation can be gained by observation of intermediate structures kinetically trapped during film casting.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pochan, Darrin J -- Chen, Zhiyun -- Cui, Honggang -- Hales, Kelly -- Qi, Kai -- Wooley, Karen L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Oct 1;306(5693):94-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Materials Science and Engineering and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15459386" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Acrylates/chemistry
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Acrylic Resins/chemistry
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Actins/chemistry
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Biopolymers/chemistry
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DNA/chemistry
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Diethylamines/chemistry
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Furans/chemistry
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Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
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*Micelles
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Molecular Structure
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Nucleic Acid Conformation
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Polymers/*chemistry
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Protein Conformation
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Styrene/chemistry
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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